Re: [newbie] Palm sync out of the box anyone?

2004-04-18 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 18 April 2004 03:39 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
 I am going to buy a Palm pilot, and it is essential for me that I works
 100% with  Linux and KDE applications such as Korganizer, KAdressBook etc.
 I am considering Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten E. The latter should work with
 KPilot:

   http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html#pilot

 But how well?
 And what about Tungsten C (with WiFi)?

 Does anybody successfully use a Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten E with SuSE
 Linux and KDE? Does it work out of the box?

 -j

I had a Visor Deluxe and now have a Palm Vx. I couldn't get KPilot to work, 
but I haven't had any real problem with Jpilot.
DBW

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[newbie] USB

2004-04-11 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot 
with something like
INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz
incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ
Init_module: no such device

dmesg log has this in it.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistering driver hub

My guess is that this quit after some update that I did.
I have check the IO and IRQ and they don't seem to be conflicting with 
anything else. Mandrake control shows the USB but the configuration doesn't 
show them configured.
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[newbie] USB

2004-04-08 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot 
with something like
INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz
incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ
Init_module: no such device

dmesg log has this in it.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistering driver hub

My guess is that this quit after some update that I did.
I have check the IO and IRQ and they don't seem to be conflicting with 
anything else. Mandrake control shows the USB but the configuration doesn't 
show them configured.

THis is probably really simple, but I can't see the forest for the trees.
Any suggestions?

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Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-01 Thread David Williams
Sounds like an April Fools Joke to me.

On Thursday 01 April 2004 07:48 am, Tobias Cloete wrote:
 That's your choice.

 I love OpenSouce and I run 3 pc's at home with Linux installed on all of
 them at work 2. I'm the only linux guy here and love to be different.

 Linux is my desktop and Windows just cracks me up!



 Btw. His is a Technical list, not a flaming one. Please keep you opinion
 to yourself



 ~Jargon



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 From: Josenildo Marques [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: 01 April 2004 02:16 PM
 To: newbie
 Subject: [newbie] back to the good old Windows



 I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also
 come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience
 is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much
 better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same.
 Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance.

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[newbie] Ad-Aware

2004-03-13 Thread David Williams
Is there any thing for Linux like Ad-Aware for Windows?
Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux?
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[newbie] Sound Card

2003-09-26 Thread David Williams
I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 PCI sound card and  I have just 
about had enough with sound card problems with this computer. Over the past 
couple of years, I started with Mandrake 8.2 and upgraded to 9.0 and 9.1 
During my really initial learning phase, I reloaded Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 
several times each. The only problem that I had (and it occurred everytime) 
was I had to struggle with getting the sound to work all the way. I got the 
sound to work with 9.1 for the most part with the exception of the Surround 
sound until recently someone had a solution that  fixed  the Surround sound.
Yesterday, during something I was doing, I trashed my / directory and had to 
reload 9.1 for the second time. Guess what -- the sound doen't work at all 
again. I have tried everything that I did in the past, researched the newbie 
list (and there are thousands of entries on sound problems) tried everything 
I could find there and still no sound.
My rant is that every time that I have had to install a new version or 
reinstall an old version I have had to fiddle-dick with this sound card and 
the solution has appeared to be different every time.
SO THE POINT TO THIS LONG AND TIRED EMAIL IS -- I know that someone (and I 
remember it as being Anne) bought a sound card that came with Linux drivers 
and worked out of the box. I don't mind the occasional learning experience 
but this is one of those problems that I would like to make permanently go 
away. Is there a particular Sound card that works?

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Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:45 am, Zariyan Zephyr wrote:
 As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and
 North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe
 and North America can afford Microsoft Windows and application
 softwares under Windows. It isn't about money, is it ?.

 ZZ

I converted last year to Linux (at home). I did it for choice and because I 
wanted to find and support an alternative to Microsoft (the possiblity of 
Paladium and the lockdown on  XP scared the heck out of me). I have not 
looked back. I have found replacement software that was as good if not better 
for everything I was doing on Microsoft and Linux is significantly more 
stable. Case in point - I went to use my wifes PC (Win98) this afternoon (for 
the first time in months) and I had to reboot 3 times before I could finish 
what I was doing. I haven't had to rebooted my Linux box in about 4 months 
now and I'm not sure I had to reboot when I did.
David

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Re: [newbie] problem with Linuxconf 'Help' window height

2003-03-16 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:25 pm, cervixcouch wrote:
 For quite a number of the windows in Linuxconf, whenever I click 'Help'
 to get more information, the window that pops up is several times the
 height of the screen and there is no scrollbar present to scroll down the
 information.

 Maximizing the screen does no good and clicking the 'X' in the upper left
 hand corner and selecting 'size' does nothing either.

 Is there a setting somewhere where this window behaviour can be changed?

Dont' know why, but I couldn't get them to resize either. You can hold down 
the ALT key and then drag with the mouse to see what you need to see.
David

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Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-07 Thread David Williams
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote:
 Ok, let me try with a different subject, may just reboot didn't catch
 anyones eye.  I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently
 rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago.  I can't find any reason for this at
 all. I've checked the logs.  This also happened yesterday.  Can anyone
 possibly come up with a reason.  I'm running Mandrake 9.0.  The only apps
 I've added lately is XScreensaver but I can't see how/why it would cause
 this.

Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of 
time or is it random.

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Re: [newbie] kmail went awol on me

2003-02-07 Thread David Williams
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:01 pm, magnet wrote:

I had this happen several times to me. 
What I found out my problem was --- It turned out that there was a corrupt 
message in the mail folders. I used Kong to look at the files and noticed 
that there was one more file than Kmail showed as messages. When I opened it 
using Kedit it had a horrendously long string of numbers in the from field. I 
deleted the  file and Kmail got alot better.
Don't know if your problem is similiar, but its something to look at.
David

 I have no idea what went wrong or why it happened, but I was reading
 through my emails and on some when read the header disappeared and the
 message appeared blank.
 Strange but didn't give it much thought at the time so I closed kmail down.
 When I tried to restart it a little later it just wouldn't from either the
 toolbar icon, the Kmenu or from a console.
 I went into my /home/ directory and renamed the directory to saved-Mail
 and powered down the computer completely.
 Rebooted and started up kmail ok, it detected the missing Mail directory
 and created a new one. I copied the contents across from my saved copy but
 then it stopped working again.
 I can't seem to find a solution to reinstate my old emails into kmail
 again. Anyone got any suggestions please?

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[newbie] File Locking

2003-02-04 Thread David Williams
My Mandrake update froze. After about 20 minutes, I killed it. Unfortuneatly, 
this cleared the update entry from the config file and left the urpmi 
database locked. I can't add the update because of the lock.
Can someone tell me how to unlock the urpmi database?
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Re: [newbie] File Locking

2003-02-04 Thread David Williams
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:43 pm, David Williams wrote:
 My Mandrake update froze. After about 20 minutes, I killed it.
 Unfortuneatly, this cleared the update entry from the config file and left
 the urpmi database locked. I can't add the update because of the lock.
 Can someone tell me how to unlock the urpmi database?

Never mind, I wrote too soon.  
It was in var/lib/urpmi. Changed the permission to group write.
I have it working now.

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Re: [newbie] Aumix Not Present

2003-01-12 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 12 January 2003 07:29 pm, Micah Haber wrote:
 OS: Mandrake 9.0
  
 I’m trying to access the Aumix application to hear sound on my system, but
 it isn’t present under Multimedia-Sound-Aumix.  I thought it might be
 installable through rpmdrake 3.0, but a search for “aumix” turns up
 nothing.  Can anyone tell me how to install/access Aumix on my system? 
 Thanks.

It should show up as aumix-2.7-13mdk.
Might check to see if it was installed and just not put in the menus.
For what it is worth, I found that AlsaMixerGUI gave more options and fixed my 
sound problems when aumix did not.
David Williams

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[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread David Williams
Not that anybody really cares. 

But I tried Phoenix and I am about to uninstall it. I don't notice any 
difference in performance between Mozilla and Phoenix (I have a 1.4GHZ AMD) 
and I like the stuff like Open a Web Page in Moziila (among other 
things). Just my two cents worth in case anybody else is going to try Phoenix 
out.
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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread David Williams
On Monday 06 January 2003 09:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
 On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:24:41 -0500

 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Not that anybody really cares.
 
  But I tried Phoenix and I am about to uninstall it. I don't notice any
  difference in performance between Mozilla and Phoenix (I have a 1.4GHZ
  AMD) and I like the stuff like Open a Web Page in Moziila (among
  other things). Just my two cents worth in case anybody else is going to
  try Phoenix out.
  David Williams

 What's the Open a Web Page you refer to?

 Todd

Actually, its Open a Web Location under the File heading. I have it set to 
Open in a New Navigator Tab. I like the feature as you have a pull down for 
commonly used web pages like Slashdot.  I think the implementation of tabs 
is better done in Mozilla than in Phoenix.
David
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Re: [newbie] Samba

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:54 am, Freddy Baert wrote:
 Would somebody tell me how to start the Samba Wizard, because I don't find
 it.

 Thanks

 Freddy

Swat has a wizard in it, but I didn't find it particularly useful.
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Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:11 pm, Russ wrote:
 I am a definite newbie to the world of Linux. I have tinkered with it in
 the past but always had issues that prevented me from fully jumping on
 board.

 I have been dealing with Windows since I got into computers in the early
 90's. I am the guy that my friends (and their friends) call when there
 windows computer goes haywire (free tech support). I am no expert on
 Windows but I can find my way around and fix many of the common problems
 that pop up. I have helped friends (and myself) reinstall windows more
 times than I care to remember.

 I said the above just to show you that I am actually qualified to jump
 in on this thread. I bought a new hard drive for the purposes of
 tackling Linux again (with Mandrake9). I wanted a dual boot system
 (Win98 MD9). My windows partition is still not up and running (no sound,
 no Internet, video in basic mode). Mandrake9 was up and running within 5
 min after install (it took me that long to find the papers that had my
 mail setting and computer name - cable internet connection). Now you
 tell me which was easier to install?

 The problem comes from the steep learning curve from Win to Linux. As I
 get into it again, some of it is coming back to me. I still have a long
 way to go to be as efficient in Linux as I am in Windows. I do know that
 I want to get away from Windows altogether. The way things look so far,
 it looks like I may be able to with MD9. So I plug away. First order of
 business is to tackle wine.

 I can say that if Linux continues to mature as it has and MS continues
 their idiotic policies, more of us will join you. Do not be afraid of a
 less than perfect review. Jump for joy for a favorable one. You are
 gaining ground.

 Russ

 On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 04:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
  Of course some of the problems come from the fact that everything changes
  so fast in Linux.  We are all hungry for the latest and greatest
  'improvements'. There's nothing stopping us from taking an earlier
  version, but do we?  As I have said before, getting x.0 of anything is
  almost bound to have issues.
 
  On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 10:37 am, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
   Me too, but I tried it again later and it's working now.
   I'm sorry I read it though. The best part for me was reading the
   responses to his article. ;)
 
  Some of them amazed me - some made me angry.  In the first place I think
  people do discount how long it took to get windows expertise.  More
  important than that, I do wonder about some of these self-styled experts.
   To state that it was necessary to use an Expert install in order to keep
  his partitions is blatant b***sh**.  Many other comments suggest to me
  that the user is not prepared to learn anything, wants everything on a
  plate.  OK - but accept that you have no control at all if you do.
 
  I have long held that a newbie to windows gets a pc with windows
  installed. He has no choice, and the limited choice available to him is
  not apparent unless he takes the trouble to learn about it - and many do
  not.  The reviewer is right that those initial problems are tackled by
  vendors or geeky relatives/friends.  The main difference with linux is
  that the user is unlikely, in many instances, to be offered it by the
  vendor, and by the numbers game, unlikely to have friends/relatives
  sufficiently expert to want to be responsible for his system.
 
  I'm not pleading perfection in 9.0. nor for that matter in Mandrake, and
  I know there is a need to have a need-list (re fixes or improvements) as
  well as a wish-list (by which I mean the less urgent).
 
  It made interesting reading, though, even if I did keep thinking 'funny,
  I didn't get that problem'.
 
  Anne

I agree with Russ and like Russ I am the one that family and friends call for 
Windows support. I was a die-hard if somewhat disgruntled Windows fan until 
XP and Palladium started to hit the news. I am now completely off of Windows 
on my computer (my wife and sons are a different story). The learning curve 
is steep but in part because I keep wanting to look at things in a Windows 
fashion. I am becoming more comfortable and somewhat more proficient with 
Linux. I have SAMBA, VNC, WINE, CROSSOVER (demo for the moment) installed and 
have loved every minute of the learning experience (even the exasperating 
times). Course, I have bought 3 books on the subject matter and need to buy 
at least one more. Linux is reaching a point that the slightly above average 
computer user can now learn what to do and how to do it. 
The news articles are encouraging. And I honestly believe (because I know that 
I have), its the support people that are/will have a grassroots impact on the 
way people are thinking about the Linux distros.
Sorry, on my Linux soapbox...

David Williams

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Re: [newbie] Samba

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:36 pm, Freddy Baert wrote:
 Derek,

 Will you please tell me how to install this drakwizard rpm.
 Will I do this with Run command or in a Konsole screen ?
 Is it possible to do this as a normal user or will I need root priviligies
 ?

 Sorry for this questions but it is my first linux installation.

 Many thanks

 Freddy


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 Sent: zondag 5 januari 2003 18:12
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba

 On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 4:58 pm, David Williams wrote:
  On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:54 am, Freddy Baert wrote:
   Would somebody tell me how to start the Samba Wizard, because I don't
   find it.
  
   Thanks
  
   Freddy
 
  Swat has a wizard in it, but I didn't find it particularly useful.
  David

 Just install the drakwizard RPM.  Mandrake Control Centre then has another
 set
 of server menus. The Samba one will set you up a basic Samba server

 derek

Under KDE goto Configuration - Packaging -Install Software
It will ask for root password.
type in your password and rpmdrake will show up.

easiest thing to do is click on All Packages, Alphabetically
go down the list until you find drakwizard-0.2-13mdk  or something similiar 
and click on the box next to it.
insert the proper CD that it asks for and that should do it.

David

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[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams

Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it out and got everything working. I have been 
using it for a week or so to get use to it.
I just tried to run Mozilla (from the desktop, user command line, root, and 
from the mozilla directory) and I get Phoenix.
Phoenix has its own set of directories. Its as if the mozilla executable was 
replaced by Phoenix.
I know that Phoenix uses the mozilla engine. 
Is there something that I am missing here?
David

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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 06:56 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
 On Monday 06 January 2003 02:20, David Williams wrote:
  Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it out and got everything working. I have
  been using it for a week or so to get use to it.
  I just tried to run Mozilla (from the desktop, user command line, root,
  and from the mozilla directory) and I get Phoenix.
  Phoenix has its own set of directories. Its as if the mozilla executable
  was replaced by Phoenix.
  I know that Phoenix uses the mozilla engine.
  Is there something that I am missing here?
  David

 Were there any open Phoenix sessions when you tried
 to launch Mozilla?

 I've noticed that trying to launch Phoenix when a Mozilla
 session is already open gives me a Moz window...

 Damian

I put Phoenix into its own directory. 
I've noticed the same thing with open sessions, so I made sure that nothing 
was running when I tried Mozilla.
David

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[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
Never mind about the Phoenix problem.
I hate to admit it but I did the old Windows trick.
I rebooted and everything is fine now.
David
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Re: [newbie] K-Mail Filter question

2003-01-04 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 04 January 2003 01:19 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
 On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:35, Derek wrote:
  On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 9:55 am, Michael Adams wrote:
   I was trying to set up a filter on my sent-mail folder to delete
   anything that has been there for 2 months or more. I can't quite see
   how to do it as filters only seem to be applied to incoming or outgoing
   mail not dates in folders.
  
   Any sugestions or am i blowing smoke.
  
   kmail 1.3.2
   Mandrake distro 8.2
 
  Just right click on the mail folder and select 'expire old messages'
  You can then set up how long messages remain in each folder.
 
  derek

 Sorry Derek, Right clicking only brings up compact and empty as
 choices.

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In Settings-Configure Kmail-Miscellaneous, there is a check off box to 
expire old messages when closing. The right click on a folder and set the old 
message age to whatever you want. When you close Kmail it will delete the 
messages that meet that criteria.
OR
Under Settings-Configure Filters, you can define a filter in (age in days) 
(equals) (some number).
You can then periodically apply the filter manually on a particular folder.
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Re: [newbie] Installing WINE

2003-01-03 Thread David Williams
On Friday 03 January 2003 08:57 am, matt T wrote:
 Hello all, i'm a user of mandrake linux since 7 hours ago and i am having
 some troubles installing wine. i got this off the web elsewhere:

 first, untar the file:
 tar -xf wine.tar

 second, go to the directory it untarred:

 cd wine

 third, run the configure script:

 ./configure

 fourth, run the compiling script:

 make

 fifth, run the installing script:

 make install

 that should be all you have to do, unless you want to install to a
 different directory than the default.







 Problem is, i have no idea how to do that. Thanks in advance for any
 replies,

 matt

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You will need to use a terminal program (probably superuser mode) and enter 
the inputs from the command line. If you are not familiar with them, you 
might want to read up a little on the basic command line inputs for changing 
directories, copying and deleting files, etc. They are in the Command line 
documentation (get there in KDE by clicking on the red and white lifesaver).
Start there and enjoy the learning experience.
David
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Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code

2003-01-02 Thread David Williams
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:30 am, Gavin Rollins wrote:
 Graham,

 I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these
 files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to
 /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will
 correct me!!) after you transfered the files they should make their own
 folder. goto that folder look for the readmedoc and follow the
 directions.

 What other type of programs have you downloaded?? RPM'S?? if so I find them
 to be much easier.. but its best to learn both ways. Graham, its a long
 learning process but the fruit is so sweet once you get it! if you happen
 to see a post from lanman ask him your question.. he has and still is
 helping me with my system and I have a mini lab setup in my home... hope
 this helped a bit.. holla back soon.
 Gavin aka Grasshopper

 On Friday 03 January 2003 08:21 am, Graham Pohle wrote:
  I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me
  I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't
  work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not
  just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My
  name is graham and I can place the files in my home/graham dir OK, but
  that's it. I can't do anything from there. The only program that I seem
  to be having a bit of success with is nmap. It was a simple as typing
  nmap as a root command and off I went.If anyone has some useful
  information, I would appreciate it.(What would we do without
  newbies?)LOL

If you are using KDE and in most cases from Konqueror, you can just double 
click into the tar.gz file and then do a drag and drop of the files from 
there into the temp directory. I generally use the superuser version so that 
I have the terminal line available for anything else that I do.

David

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Re: [newbie] Web site causing Mozilla to crash

2002-12-31 Thread David Williams
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 05:01 pm, AndrewD wrote:
 I am thinking you don't have the Java plugin installed. Goto (in your
 browser) Help -  About Plugins and see if something like this comes up
 Java(TM) Plug-in 1.3.1_02-b02

 File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
 Java(TM) Plug-in1.3.1_02
 below that should be the MIME types for Java. If not you can download it
 from (don't goto the SUN java sight)

 http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048

 it is about 15-16 meg so if you are using a dial up it will take a
 while.

 Good luck

 Andrew D
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I tried the site with Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.21 (both have Java installed) 
and it worked fine. So I would say that Java is the key.

David

 On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:08, Chris wrote:
  I went to a web site this evening, www.bobmayer.org to check on the
  authors new book.  I was using mozilla v1.1, with Mandrake 9.0  While the
  site was loading I noticed on the status line, applet loading, then
  mozilla would crash and I couldn't even bring up kde system guard to kill
  the process, had to do a ctrl-alt-backspace.  Below is the error log that
  was saved to my home dir.  I have no problems with Mozilla at any other
  sites, I'll have to assume that its this one alone, but I'm curious as to
  what the below means.  And I appologize in advance for the message
  length.
 
  An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
  Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x409749bb
  Function name=(N/A)
  Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6
 
  NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
reason and solutions.
 
  Current Java thread:
  at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.disposeImpl(Native Method)
  at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.dispose(X11Graphics.java:246)
  at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(RepaintArea.java:295)
  at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.handleEvent(MComponentPeer.java:344)
  at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2658)
  at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1208)
  at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2492)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:334)
  at
  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread
 .java:126) at
  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.j
 ava:93) at
  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:88) at
  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:80)
 
  Dynamic libraries:
  08048000-0804c000 r-xp  03:46 3752097
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/bin/i386/native_threads/java_vm
  0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 3000 03:46 3752097
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/bin/i386/native_threads/java_vm
  4000-40011000 r-xp  03:41 667938 /lib/ld-2.2.5.so
  40011000-40012000 rw-p 0001 03:41 667938 /lib/ld-2.2.5.so
  40013000-40016000 r-xp  03:46 245928
  /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0 40016000-40017000 rw-p 2000 03:46 245928
  /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0 40017000-4001c000 r-xp  03:46
  245920 /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0.0.0 4001c000-4001d000 rw-p 5000
  03:46 245920 /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0.0.0 4001d000-4001f000 r-xp
   03:41 667824 /lib/libdl-2.2.5.so 4001f000-4002 rw-p
  1000 03:41 667824 /lib/libdl-2.2.5.so 4002-40029000 r-xp
   03:46 3293256
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so
  40029000-4002a000 rw-p 8000 03:46 3293256
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so
  4002a000-4002b000 r--p  03:46 3604923
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_IDENTIFICATION
  4002b000-4002c000 r--p  03:46 3604922
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MEASUREMENT
  4002c000-4002d000 r--p  03:46 3604897
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_TELEPHONE
  4002d000-4002e000 r--p  03:46 3604924
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_ADDRESS
  4002e000-4002f000 r--p  03:46 3604920
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_NAME
  4002f000-4003 r--p  03:46 3604898
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_PAPER
  4003-40031000 r--p  03:46 3686876
  /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
  40031000-4003e000 r-xp  03:41 2182650   
  /lib/i686/libpthread-0.9.so 4003e000-40045000 rw-p d000 03:41 2182650
 /lib/i686/libpthread-0.9.so 40045000-4024a000 r-xp  03:46
  1998918
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
  4024a000-4034b000 rw-p 00204000 03:46 1998918
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
  40362000-40383000 r-xp  03:46 1540433
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/libjava.so
  40383000-40385000 rw-p 0002 03:46 1540433
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/libjava.so
  40386000-40754000 r-xp  03:46 1540427
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/libawt.so
  40754000-40764000 rw-p 003cd000 03:46 1540427
  /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/lib/i386/libawt.so
  4077a000-4079c000 

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-30 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:51 am, Angus Auld wrote:
  Greetings, I just wanted to pass along my observations
 of the latest Phoenix 0.5 releasevery nice!
 I'm using it now in fact.

 I'm an Opera enthusiast, but this one is pretty fast
 and light. I don't think it is any faster than Opera,
 but it seems a lot faster than Mozilla or Konq.
 And, it's open sourceand, there are no
 ads..and, it has tabs too ;-)

 I have java and flash working w/o any difficulty. This one looks like a
 winner.

 Just my observations.


 --Angus



I have installed Phoenix, got java, realplayer and plugger, etc working.
I went to the Phoenix help page and found several tips and tricks that I 
wanted to implement. I created a user.js file in the location specified and 
made the changes that I wanted. However, Phoenix does not appear to see the 
user.js file. I tried to change the pref.js file but it gets recreated. 
Is there something else that I should do so that Phoenix sees the user.js 
file?
David

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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-30 Thread David Williams
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:42 pm, Angus Auld wrote:
 - Original Message -
 From: David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:14:07 -0500
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

  On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:51 am, Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings, I just wanted to pass along my observations
   of the latest Phoenix 0.5 releasevery nice!
   I'm using it now in fact.
  
   I'm an Opera enthusiast, but this one is pretty fast
   and light. I don't think it is any faster than Opera,
   but it seems a lot faster than Mozilla or Konq.
   And, it's open sourceand, there are no
   ads..and, it has tabs too ;-)
  
   I have java and flash working w/o any difficulty. This one looks like a
   winner.
  
   Just my observations.
  
  
   --Angus
 
  I have installed Phoenix, got java, realplayer and plugger, etc working.
  I went to the Phoenix help page and found several tips and tricks that I
  wanted to implement. I created a user.js file in the location specified
  and made the changes that I wanted. However, Phoenix does not appear to
  see the user.js file. I tried to change the pref.js file but it gets
  recreated. Is there something else that I should do so that Phoenix sees
  the user.js file?
  David

 **
 I don't have a fix David, but someone on here probably can help. I've made
 some changes to fonts in my pref.js through Tools  Preferences, and they
 seem to be holding OK.

 All the best.

 --Angus

Thanks for the response.

I had copied the pref.js to user.js and added my changes to it. In an effort 
to try something, I went back and removed the duplicate stuff and changed the 
header from #mozilla preferences to #user prefs and it started to work. I 
don't really know which change fixed it. Added a couple of other items to 
speed it up and stop pop-ups. Pretty neat.

David

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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
  *
  Hey, super! Tex has rpms for Phoenix 0.5, and plugins too! Way to go Tex.
 
  I've been running the tar package from Mozilla.org, which you don't
  really install, just run. Will the rpm package possibly work better?
  Fonts are not top grade with the package I'm running now. That's about
  the only complaint I have though.

 That's exactly the good part of Tex's RPMS. That Phoenix build has XFT
 enabed, and fonts look great!

 see ya.

 Damian

I have installed Phoenix and in the process installed RealPlayer and Java.
If I try to install the realplayer rpm for Phoenix it tells me it can't 
install because I need realplayer. How do I make the connection so that 
Phoenix knows that realplayer is installed. (The same goes for Mozilla)
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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:52 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
  I have installed Phoenix and in the process installed RealPlayer and
  Java. If I try to install the realplayer rpm for Phoenix it tells me it
  can't install because I need realplayer. How do I make the connection so
  that Phoenix knows that realplayer is installed. (The same goes for
  Mozilla) David

 uhm.. i guess you installed RealPlayer as you downloaded it off real.com?

 The problem is that Phoenix is now expecting to see an RPM version
 of RealPlayer installed. (The RPM made also by Texstar) If this is your
 only dependency problem, install Phoenix with --nodeps. Should work.

 HTH


 Damian

That fixed it.
Thanks, David

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Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:44 pm, Angus Auld wrote:
 - Original Message -
 From: David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:05:25 -0500
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

  On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Damian Gatabria

 wrote:
*
Hey, super! Tex has rpms for Phoenix 0.5, and plugins too!

 Way to go Tex.

I've been running the tar package from Mozilla.org, which

 you don't

really install, just run. Will the rpm package possibly work

 better?

Fonts are not top grade with the package I'm running now.

 That's about

the only complaint I have though.
  
   That's exactly the good part of Tex's RPMS. That Phoenix

 build has XFT

   enabed, and fonts look great!
  
   see ya.
  
   Damian
 
  I have installed Phoenix and in the process installed

 RealPlayer and Java.

  If I try to install the realplayer rpm for Phoenix it tells me it can't
  install because I need realplayer. How do I make the

 connection so that

  Phoenix knows that realplayer is installed. (The same goes for

 Mozilla)

  David

 **
 Do you have realplayer installed, and are trying to install the
 plugin? Or, is it the actual player you're trying to get installed?
 I tried installing Tex's Phoenix rpm, and it brought up some
 dependencies that were required before it would install. It said I
 needed the following: Xft, fontconfig, libfontconfig.so.1, 
 libXft.so.2. I didn't bother. I am still using the tar install of
 Phoenix from mozilla.org.

 Check to see if you have plugger-4.0-7mdk installed, it's on the
 cd's. That allows the use of realplayer (and other apps too) in
 your browsers.works for me anyway. I didn't have to install any
 separate plugins. I'm using Tex's realplayer. Works in all my
 browsers (except Phoenix, I would likely have to copy the plugger
 plugin to phoenix's plugin folder to get it to work).

 HTH. All the best.



 --Angus

I have realplayer installed but the plugin couldn't find it.
Installing the plugin with the --nodeps fixed it.
Thanks to the clue from Damian.
I have the plugger plugin and it seems to work.
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Re: [newbie] strange hardware question .. how to tell the Wattage (Watts?) of a P/S

2002-12-28 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:50 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
 Subject says it all... any ideas besides reading a label?  Thx.  Oh  Is
 there any diff between AT  ATX P/S's?
 Merci



 -
 FemmeFatale

 Good Decisions You boss Made:
 We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
 character from Peanuts.

 - Source: Dilbert

Generally the model number will have the wattage embedded in it. 
For example: Model ATX-350-12V
The 350 is the wattage. 

Usually the power is equal to the current times the voltage.
You have to watch what you are using  on this. As the power supply robs Peter 
to pay Paul.
My supply (which is the model above) has 12V at 15Amps max and 5V at 35 Amps 
max .. (12*15)+(5*35) = 355 watts. (Generally, this is what you can use to 
roughly determine what the wattage of the supply).
It also shows 3.3v at 20A and -5V at .5AMPS and and -12V at .5AMPS
(3.3*20)+(5*.5)+(12*.5)= 72.25
This would give a total wattage as 427Watts but remember the rob Peter to pay 
Paul.  The supply cannot supply all of the voltages at the max current as it 
will blow a fuse.
Now, have I thoroughly confused the issue.
David


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Re: [newbie] strange hardware question .. how to tell the Wattage (Watts?) of a P/S

2002-12-28 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 28 December 2002 07:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
 At 06:44 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
 On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:50 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
   Subject says it all... any ideas besides reading a label?  Thx.  Oh 
   Is there any diff between AT  ATX P/S's?
   Merci
  
  
  
   -
   FemmeFatale
  
   Good Decisions You boss Made:
   We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
   character from Peanuts.
  
   - Source: Dilbert
 
 Generally the model number will have the wattage embedded in it.
 For example: Model ATX-350-12V
 The 350 is the wattage.

 Yay!  Thx that worked :)  Heh now to figure out if I should bother with the
 250Watt ATX Or leave it at AT 220 W?  any suggestions??  its a pII 200 I
 believe... or 233... Not sure offhand.  And will serve files (Mp3's from
 ftp/apache, possibly serve as some sort of firewall... depending... i have
 a router... and um.. not much else).  So which size of PS do I need offhand
 do you think?
 -
 FemmeFatale

 Good Decisions You boss Made:
 We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
 character from Peanuts.

 - Source: Dilbert

Depends on what you are doing with it. Outside of the CPU, the most current 
draw will be the disk drives and the new ones draw very little power. Of 
course a high powered graphics accelerator will draw a lot of power, but I 
assume that doesn't apply here. Lots of memory will be negligible also.
I used to have a 233MHZ pentium, so-so graphics card,  2 five and 1/4 inch 
hard drives, 1-floppy and a CDROM on a 220Watt supply.

David

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Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams wrote:
  I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back.
 
  I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I have all
  of the system noises working correctly. The problem is that the back
  speakers and the Sub-woofer doesn't work again. I have tried the AUMIX
  and SOUND CONTROL settings (which is what I thought fixed it the first
  time). Any ideas that I can follow after
  David

 Don't know whether it will help, but I needed the fix described on Derek's
 page

 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djennings/

 It says it is to fix problems if you don't have an audio cable from your
 soundcard, but I had such a cable, and the fix was still needed.  You can't
 lose, I think, so it's worth a try.

 Anne

As you said it was worth a shot, however it didn't help.
I can play CDs through the front speakers. I just don't have the back channels 
or subwoofer working. I did load the EMUL10K1 which is what I use and it 
isn't what was loaded. However, that didn't seem to help.
Thanks for the idea. If nothing else, I learn something new everyday.
David

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Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:36 am, David Williams wrote:
 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams wrote:
   I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back.
  
   I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I have all
   of the system noises working correctly. The problem is that the back
   speakers and the Sub-woofer doesn't work again. I have tried the AUMIX
   and SOUND CONTROL settings (which is what I thought fixed it the first
   time). Any ideas that I can follow after
   David
 
  Don't know whether it will help, but I needed the fix described on
  Derek's page
 
  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djennings/
 
  It says it is to fix problems if you don't have an audio cable from your
  soundcard, but I had such a cable, and the fix was still needed.  You
  can't lose, I think, so it's worth a try.
 
  Anne

 As you said it was worth a shot, however it didn't help.
 I can play CDs through the front speakers. I just don't have the back
 channels or subwoofer working. I did load the EMUL10K1 which is what I use
 and it isn't what was loaded. However, that didn't seem to help.
 Thanks for the idea. If nothing else, I learn something new everyday.
 David

Anne --
Spoke to soon, once again. I reloaded rather than logout and log back in and I 
once again have all of my sound.
Thanks for the tip.
Its been a good weekend. I have SAMBA running (this took me three weeks), VNC 
working, my sound is back. I have all of the stuff loaded that I wanted 
loaded (with the exception of Bannerblind in Mozilla). Life and Linux MDK9.0 
is good.
Merry Christmas
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Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 05:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 6:07 pm, David Williams wrote:
  On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:36 am, David Williams wrote:
   On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams wrote:
 I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back.

 I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I have
 all of the system noises working correctly. The problem is that the
 back speakers and the Sub-woofer doesn't work again. I have tried
 the AUMIX and SOUND CONTROL settings (which is what I thought fixed
 it the first time). Any ideas that I can follow after
 David
   
Don't know whether it will help, but I needed the fix described on
Derek's page
   
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djennings/
   
It says it is to fix problems if you don't have an audio cable from
your soundcard, but I had such a cable, and the fix was still needed.
You can't lose, I think, so it's worth a try.
   
Anne
  
   As you said it was worth a shot, however it didn't help.
   I can play CDs through the front speakers. I just don't have the back
   channels or subwoofer working. I did load the EMUL10K1 which is what I
   use and it isn't what was loaded. However, that didn't seem to help.
   Thanks for the idea. If nothing else, I learn something new everyday.
   David
 
  Anne --
  Spoke to soon, once again. I reloaded rather than logout and log back in
  and I once again have all of my sound.
  Thanks for the tip.

 Glad it helped.

  Its been a good weekend. I have SAMBA running (this took me three weeks),
  VNC working, my sound is back. I have all of the stuff loaded that I
  wanted loaded (with the exception of Bannerblind in Mozilla). Life and
  Linux MDK9.0 is good.
  Merry Christmas
  David

 Just as a matter of interest - do you have a cable from your audio card, or
 is it an oddity, like mine was?

 Anne

That was the first thing that I checked an d I have a cable between the drive 
and the card.  
David

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[newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix.
Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other?
Or, is this a matter of personal preference?
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Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
On Monday 23 December 2002 10:52 pm, David Williams wrote:
 On Monday 23 December 2002 05:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 00:57, David Williams wrote:
   Ok,
   I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more.
   I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed Shorewall and broke
   SAMBA. In trying to fix SAMBA, I broke my internet connection and
   Mozilla. Somewhere in all of this I got my sound working properly.
   My problem with SAMBA was a it should work type of problem. With that
   problem and several other small annoyances that I was having, I did a
   reinstall of MDK9.0 and decided I would start fresh.
   No Samba, no shorewall, etc. etc. etc.
   Updated Mozilla, broke Mozilla, re-installed Mozilla. Everything OK
   Now my sound is broke. It will play a CD but nothing else but the
   backchannels sound and system sounds won't work. I can't say that it
   was working at all after the re-install of 9.0 (that was at 2AM).
   I have enabled sound in the control panel and I have run AUMIX and
   upped the bar there (this is what fixed the sound the last time).
   Did I miss something during my install that I should have gotten.
   I have a Sound Blaster Live.
   David
 
  With the spate of issues described, I'm wondering if the system security
  is what is causing the problems - as we've heard before, the system
  would randomly change settings and files back to what they were
  beforehandare you making all your changes as root?

 YEP
 I have re-installed the world again and I have my sound back. I will be
 very careful that I install everything correctly and see what happens.
 David

I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back. 

The good news is that I have SAMBA running the way that I think that it should 
after almost three weeks of screwing with it. Can read and write files to and 
from the Windows boxes now. Although I have an idea why what I did fixed it, 
I am not really sure why it worked.

I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I have all of the 
system noises working correctly. The problem is that the back speakers and 
the Sub-woofer doesn't work again. I have tried the AUMIX and SOUND CONTROL 
settings (which is what I thought fixed it the first time).
Any ideas that I can follow after
David


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[newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-23 Thread David Williams
Ok,
I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more.
I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed Shorewall and broke SAMBA. 
In trying to fix SAMBA, I broke my internet connection and Mozilla. Somewhere 
in all of this I got my sound working properly.
My problem with SAMBA was a it should work type of problem. With that 
problem and several other small annoyances that I was having, I did a 
reinstall of MDK9.0 and decided I would start fresh.
No Samba, no shorewall, etc. etc. etc. 
Updated Mozilla, broke Mozilla, re-installed Mozilla. Everything OK
Now my sound is broke. It will play a CD but nothing else but the backchannels 
sound and system sounds won't work. I can't say that it was working at all 
after the re-install of 9.0 (that was at 2AM).
I have enabled sound in the control panel and I have run AUMIX and upped the 
bar there (this is what fixed the sound the last time).
Did I miss something during my install that I should have gotten.
I have a Sound Blaster Live.
David


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Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-23 Thread David Williams
On Monday 23 December 2002 05:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 00:57, David Williams wrote:
  Ok,
  I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more.
  I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed Shorewall and broke
  SAMBA. In trying to fix SAMBA, I broke my internet connection and
  Mozilla. Somewhere in all of this I got my sound working properly.
  My problem with SAMBA was a it should work type of problem. With that
  problem and several other small annoyances that I was having, I did a
  reinstall of MDK9.0 and decided I would start fresh.
  No Samba, no shorewall, etc. etc. etc.
  Updated Mozilla, broke Mozilla, re-installed Mozilla. Everything OK
  Now my sound is broke. It will play a CD but nothing else but the
  backchannels sound and system sounds won't work. I can't say that it was
  working at all after the re-install of 9.0 (that was at 2AM).
  I have enabled sound in the control panel and I have run AUMIX and upped
  the bar there (this is what fixed the sound the last time).
  Did I miss something during my install that I should have gotten.
  I have a Sound Blaster Live.
  David

 With the spate of issues described, I'm wondering if the system security
 is what is causing the problems - as we've heard before, the system
 would randomly change settings and files back to what they were
 beforehandare you making all your changes as root?

YEP
I have re-installed the world again and I have my sound back. I will be very 
careful that I install everything correctly and see what happens.
David



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Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-22 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 22 December 2002 01:01 am, Mark Weaver wrote:
 David Williams wrote:
  In my effort to fix my SAMBA problem, I have somehow broken Mozilla.
  This occurred when the system lost the ethernet card and wouldn't connect
  online. I get that fixed but Mozilla was broke.
  When I run Mozilla, it acts like it is loading and then goes away.
  I have the Gnome system monitor running and Mozilla gobbles up a huge
  chunk of memory (256MBytes) before it stops trying to load.
  This occurs under root as well as my user name.
  Anyone have any ideas that I could try before I go and re-install it.
  David

 David,

 try starting mozilla from a terminal window and see what output comes to
 the screen as mozilla is starting and then subsequently fails. You could
 also start mozilla using gdb.

 Mark

I appreciate the help.
I tryed to load from a terminal window (root and user). It stays blank and 
echoes keyboard characters. After a very long time (several minutes) it will 
display a blank mozilla window on the screen for about 5 seconds and then it 
closes. The terminal then comes back to the prompt. Gnome monitor shows that 
it has accumulated almost 300 MBs of memory before it exits.
I am not familiar with gdb and don't know if I have it installed. I will look 
into that.
David



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Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-22 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 22 December 2002 02:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:58, David Williams wrote:
  I appreciate the help.
  I tryed to load from a terminal window (root and user). It stays blank
  and echoes keyboard characters. After a very long time (several minutes)
  it will display a blank mozilla window on the screen for about 5 seconds
  and then it closes. The terminal then comes back to the prompt. Gnome
  monitor shows that it has accumulated almost 300 MBs of memory before it
  exits.
  I am not familiar with gdb and don't know if I have it installed. I will
  look into that.
  David

 This all started happening from mucking around with SAMBA - so I would
 tend to think that something has been mucked up with either path
 statements, protocol settings, or system library settings.

 Firstly, you need to make sure your library path statements are correct
 and that the system can locate the necessary libs when needed. Edit the
 /etc/ld.so.conf file and make sure that you add the following:

 /usr/lib
 /usr/local/lib

 ...save the file and then type ldconfig in your terminal window.
 That's part one.

 In your home directory (the first directory you're in when you open up a
 term window), you're going to have to rename your existing
 ~/home/username/.mozilla - you can do this by typing in your terminal
 window:

 mv .mozilla .mozilla-old

 Now that that's done, try starting Mozilla again...let's see what
 happens now...

I get a  grep: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/local.alias: No such file or 
directory
Then after a couple of seconds I get a  Segmentation fault.
Obviously the file it can not find is local.alias and I don't have a clue what 
it is for.
As a side issue is there a good scource that maps linux. I have yet to 
figure out the method to the madness on the different libs and if I had some 
idea where to start looking I could probably figure some of this stuff out.
David

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[newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-21 Thread David Williams
In my effort to fix my SAMBA problem, I have somehow broken Mozilla.
This occurred when the system lost the ethernet card and wouldn't connect 
online. I get that fixed but Mozilla was broke.
When I run Mozilla, it acts like it is loading and then goes away.
I have the Gnome system monitor running and Mozilla gobbles up a huge chunk of 
memory (256MBytes) before it stops trying to load.
This occurs under root as well as my user name.
Anyone have any ideas that I could try before I go and re-install it.
David
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Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution and Monitor (in KDE)

2002-12-19 Thread David Williams
On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:42 pm, Paul Dimitriu wrote:
 Probably something very easy:

 How (in KDE) the devil do I change my screen
 resolution and monitor type?

 Thanks,

 Paul

In Mandrake, you do it in the Mandrake Control Center under monitor or 
resolution.
David

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Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-12-18 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 05:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 3:57 am, David Williams wrote:
  On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote:
   On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote:
OK, I give up.
I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine
and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba  so I can copy
files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others.
   
Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer
can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor
settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to
work.)  That is the only thing that I have done.
   
Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get
the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file.
   
I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to
find out how to fix it.
David
  
   snip
  
   Hi David.
   Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if
   drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN
   IP range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was
   installing the nvidia drivers].
   Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives
   you the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. Also
   worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your
   windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's.
  
   Let us know how you get on.
  
   regards
   magnet
 
  I got everything working with the biggest problem being shorewall. I have
  it removed for the moment. I can read, write, and print files to my Linux
  system from the Windows. However, I can only see the disk drives on the
  windows system from the Linux system.  I have the disks shared under
  windows. I can not for the life of me find anything that would prevent me
  from reading the shared files on Windows from the Linux PC. This usually
  means that I have overlooked the obvious. Any help is greatly
  appreciated. David

 On the windows boxes, how are the share connections set?  Mine are all set
 as share level, not password controlled.  I don't know whether that would
 cause any problem. Anne

I have the drives set up as share level. I turned off all of the password 
stuff until I got the basics working.
David



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Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-12-17 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote:
 On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote:
  OK, I give up.
  I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and
  Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba  so I can copy files
  and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others.
 
  Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be
  seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from
  800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.)  That is the
  only thing that I have done.
 
  Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the
  errors below logged to the log.nmbd file.
 
  I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find
  out how to fix it.
  David

 snip

 Hi David.
 Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if drakconfig
 decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP range. This
 will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was installing the
 nvidia drivers].
 Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you
 the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages.
 Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your
 windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's.

 Let us know how you get on.

 regards
 magnet

I got everything working with the biggest problem being shorewall. I have it 
removed for the moment. I can read, write, and print files to my Linux system 
from the Windows. However, I can only see the disk drives on the windows 
system from the Linux system.  I have the disks shared under windows. I can 
not for the life of me find anything that would prevent me from reading the 
shared files on Windows from the Linux PC. This usually means that I have 
overlooked the obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated.
David



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Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-13 Thread David Williams
Thanks to Stephen Kuhn and Bryan Tyson. The EMUL10K1 driver was already loaded 
and the hint from Stephen and Bryan Tyson on checking the mixers fixed the 
problem. Once I knew what I was looking for, I found the back ground speakers 
were turned completely down.  -- Everything works fine now. Thanks again
David

On Thursday 12 December 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote:
  I noticed that my sound card  (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing
  background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake
  9.0.
 
  As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver.  However,
  it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc.  Before I did all of
  this, I wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if
  I was hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction.
 
  David





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[newbie] Samba

2002-12-13 Thread David Williams
OK, I give up.
I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 
on the other three. I have been using Samba  so I can copy files and etc and 
to share a printer on my computer with the others. 

Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen 
on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 
to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.)  That is the only thing 
that I have done.

Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the 
errors below logged to the log.nmbd file.

I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out 
how to fix it.
David


[2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
  Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
[2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239)
  create_subnets: No local interfaces !
[2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.
[2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
  Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
[2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239)
  create_subnets: No local interfaces !
[2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.
[2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
  Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
[2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239)
  create_subnets: No local interfaces !
[2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.



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[newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread David Williams
I noticed that my sound card  (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing 
background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. 

As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver.  However, it 
appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc.  Before I did all of this, I 
wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if I was 
hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction.

David





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